2008/2012 REDUX - Director's Cut
Engineer off-year election losses via well-planned ‘no design’ strategies – including, but not limited to, the promotion of candidates who ran away from the President in both off-year elections.
Move the ‘left’ of party’s position nationally to the right – past ‘center’ and establishing a strong base of Republican Lite party figures.
Fragment all potentially cohesive state-to-state operations – abandon any semblance of a 50-state strategy, offer little help on local and state levels, and virtually surrender local political organizing to the right wing’s machinery.
Paint the Democratic Party into a corner for 2016 – having the Supreme Court be the bigger question than who would be best to lead America into the future NOW – as if the only way out of the painted corner is to run through the blazing door of fire.
THIS is the Democratic Party as it should be…from Harry S. Truman:
“Today the forces of liberalism face a crisis. The people of the United States must make a choice between two ways of living — a decision which will affect us the rest of our lives and our children and our grandchildren after us.
On the other side, there is the Wall Street way of life and politics. Trust the leader! Let big business take care of prices and profits! Measure all things by money! That is the philosophy of the masters of the Republican Party.
Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues.
Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.
They approve of the American farmer — but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home — but not for housing.
They are strong for labor — but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
They endorse educational opportunity for all — but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools.
They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine — for people who can afford them.
They approve of Social Security benefits — so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.
They believe in international trade — so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program, and killed our International Wheat Agreement.
They favor the admission of displaced persons — but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
They consider electric power a great blessing — but only when the private power companies get their rake-off.
They say TVA is wonderful — but we ought never to try it again.
They condemn "cruelly high prices" — but fight to the death every effort to bring them down.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing — so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.
And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.
Now, my friends, that is the Wall Street Republican way of life. But there is another way — there is another way — the Democratic way, the way of the Democratic Party.”
When we must choose between what is truly center-right, corporatist candidates and policies versus the liberal progressive leaders and beliefs the Democratic Party has historically stood for we will only suffer the old axiom: “When Democrats become Republican-lite to try to win elections…real Republicans win the elections.”
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